MusicScore is a program that offers to its users all the necessary tools to create, customize and share music.
The moment you enter the program, you realize that in order to use it you need to have at least some basic music creation knowledge, such as notes, instruments, and staves. Even though you possess this kind of knowledge, the GUI might seem complex for a novice user. It has two skin themes, grey and dark, both having a professional look. The menu is well-structured and delimited, the buttons icons are very visible and responsive at the same time.
Besides having a comprehensive design, MuseScore has multiple supported file formats and numerous visual and technical customization options.
It provides support for a wide range of formats, from MID, WAV, FLAC, OGG to PDF and PNG. This way, depending on necessities, the user always has an export option to choose from.
With MusicScore, you can write music for different instruments, such as piano, guitar, orchestra, jazz, choir, or band, each instrument having its personalized features.
Moreover, this program allows you to transfer to and from other programs through MusicXML or MIDI.
All in all, MusicScore comes as a software solution for individuals who love music, but love to create more, and who have a certain degree of understanding music notes and staves. Besides this, the program is highly responsive, has an attractive interface and multiple useful features.
v2.3.2 [Jul 4, 2018]
New features
- #273032: Implement extensions to provide an easy way to install soundfont, templates and instruments.xml.
- #256021: Add buzz roll tremolo stem.
- #271198: Add a more flexible way to choose noteheads in drumset for percussion instrument.
- #271723: Implement filters in Zerberus.
- #272276: Add ability to have a different MIDI pitch for drum instrument based on articulation or tremolo.
- Implemented flams and crush notation for unpitched percussion.
Playback
- Fix #270996: No sound on upgrade to 2.2 if default soundfont was saved as default.
- Fix #271717: Match the default tempo in New Score Wizard.
- Fix #272377: 'Follow text' is not applied to tempo text.
Zerberus
- Fix #222031: remove ties and spanners when removing induvidual notes within a chord.
- Fix #271718: clicking noise fix.
- Fix #271719: sound accumulation on noteOff.
- Fix #271722: long release samples do not play in their entirety.
- Fix #272687: Unable to select an SFZ playback for a drum instrument.
- Fix #273150: incorrect off_by processing.
- Fix #273241: incorrect loading sample when use comment line.
User interface
- #273511: Order notes in Drum Input Palette like in instruments.xml.
- #269952: Allow new templates to be seen without restart.
- Follow macOS platform conventions for window title and dirty state.
- Use setWindowModified to display * in window title.
- Fix #8808: Add option to limit scroll area of the navigator and the score view.
- Fix #117236: Honor 'pan score' button during edits.
- Fix #153691: Drumtools palette not closing when switching between files.
- Fix #268016: No message on second keyboard shortcut already in use.
- Fix #271074: Image capture with transparent background empty when pasting into other programs on Windows (reverted Fix #209596: Screencapture Copy Transparency issue).
- Fix #271935: Wrong voice button is highlighted after unsuccessful voice change.
- Fix #273672: Right align "Double augmentation dot" in preferences dialog.
- Fix #272153: Notes for transposing instrument are shown in concert pitch on piano control.
Crashes and corruptions fixed
- Fix #76751: MuseScore crashes when opening plugin manager after adding new plugin.
- Fix #270850: Changes to a score cause all fermatas over a barline to be discarded.
- Fix #271039: crash when closing score after changing tempo in play panel.
- Fix #271161: crashes on certain tuplets due to failure to sanitize.
- Fix #271299: Errors with multiple clefs.
- Fix #271325: Adjusting a note outside the range of a piano causes a crash when the piano keyboard is visible.
- Fix #272172: Remove tuplets after inserting measures causes corruption/crash.
- Fix crash in MusicXML import when drumset instrument has no midi- unpitched.
Score layout
- Fix #253926: Key signature not displaying correctly on clef change at the start of a score.
- Fix #267602: Measure shifts back and forth with each layout.
- Fix #269404: Line/Ottava Text properties do not apply user- defined vertical offsetting properly.
- Fix #271187: Bad canvas position when operating near right margin with vertical stacking.
- Fix #271450: Double- click to set breaks on frames.
- Fix #271529: Incorrect stem position for some noteheads in layout.
- Fix #272023: Downstem mirrored notes lose accidental.
- Fix #272066: Canvas improperly positioned when setting zoom level.
- Fix #272390: Measure numbering by interval should take 1st measure number into account.
- Fix #272691: No naturals in key sig after mmrest.
- Fix #273555: Checking "Show first" with an interval of 1 for measure numbers only shows measure number 1.
- Fix #273305: Courtesy clef hide/show issue.
Instruments
- Reworked instruments.xml.
- Fix #271103: Add 7- string guitar and Cavaquinho (4- strings guitar).
- Add missing 5- string staff type, append 7- and 8- string tablature types.
- Don't show presets for more strings than the instrument is set up for, esp. counting only fretted strings, i.e. non- open strings.
Import/Export
- Fix #271707: MusicXML export: crash when exporting hairpins.
- Fix #271840: MusicXML import: no barlines when using property.
- Fix #272062: Opening of some MusicXML files caused MuseScore to crash.
Miscellaneous
- Fix #270496: Add missing elements to incomplete tuplets when reading from a file.
- Fix #272042: Saved preferences override command line options.
- Debian fix: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=898757. Fix crash when starting with piano open.
- Allow path to be relative to stored album file.
- Fix #273660 : MIDI Keyboard Not Responded when Pressed Before Opening a Score.
